"We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them."

-- Michael Ondaatje

“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
“We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.”

Source : Nicolae Ceaușescu (1983). “Nicolae Ceaușescu, builder of modern Romania and international statesman”, Pergamon
“It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.”
“Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.”
“I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.”
“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”

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